Today is the first day of the 2009 main event. I\’m sticking to my guns and saying the field size will be anywhere from 3,000-12,000 and offering 10:1 odds on anything outside of that. Just made a wager on the […]
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PokerNews has a pretty cool new(ish) feature on YouTube called \”Hand of the Day\” — where they get two players to break down a specific tournament situation in a relatively interesting way. In this episode, they talk to Bryan Devonshire
Hand Breakdown (in Limit Hold’em) Devo’s Set vs. Boeken’s Overpair + Dealer Error
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Before I go any further, let me make one thing perfectly clear. I respect everyone who\’s made the final table of the $1,500 No-Limit Hold \’em Shootout. It\’s a great accomplishment and one I\’d be happy to emulate. That said,
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Watching the $1,500 No-Limit Hold \’em Shootout at the WSOP today brought up an interesting question; how much does the luck of the a player\’s first round table draw factor into their chances of winning? Looking at today\’s field, there
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Good post by Gugel over at AnskyPoker where he breaks down the three things you need to be a great poker player. These kinda-sorta go without saying, but at the same time, it\’s always good (for many of us) to
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Frequently in tournament poker you will encounter players who are re-raising your opens at an inappropriate frequency. At the lower stakes they tend to re-raise too little, either trying to fold to cash or just call and play passive pots
This is simply because the odds a player faces in limit hold\’em are nearly always very good – and as a result folding too much is a much bigger mistake than calling too much (if you are getting ten to
Betfair | Bluffing in Limit Poker It’s much harder than in pot-limit or no-limit games
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Heads up sit and goes provide a great opportunity for spinning up a bankroll to the beginner or play money player. The variance is very low in these games, as they combine many features which allow skill to shine through
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A \’random walk\’ is a mathematical term to describe looking at sequences of consecutive random events and observing the patterns. A simple random walk can be built using just the flip of a coin. If we assign heads the number
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